Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Baku International Multiculturalism Centre Azerbaijani Multiculturalism Textbook for Higher Education

Literary Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism

BIMC is organizing many publications as part of the project on the Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism as a way of life of the Azerbaijani people since ancient times has become a topic of completely new research from the political, philosophical and literary points of view. The first publication in the series, Literary Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism, is very important from the academic point of view. The book reflects the views of Azerbaijani writers who showed great respect for different languages and religions and for scholars, writers and beautiful people of different nationalities. The tolerant, multicultural values

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inherent to our people are said to have lived in the soul and blood of our ancestors down the centuries. This is visual evidence of the words of President Ilham Aliyev that ‘Multiculturalism is a value inherent to the Azerbaijani people.’

The book Literary Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism has been translated into English and Russian and is being distributed at present.

The next book in the series Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism, which includes Scientific and Philosophi­cal­ Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism, Written Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism and The Political and Legal Principles of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism, will soon be published­. These books show the many branches and many directions of our multicultural sources.